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• As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives.

  John C. Broger

  Children, Exercise, Parent

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• Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

  Francois Rabelais

  Believe, Heroic, Virtue

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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Environmental, Spirit, Creation

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• Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.

  John Stott

  Christian, Responsibility, People

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• ... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Two, Greed

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• You have established the earth and it continues. All things stand this day according to your directions. For all things are your servants (Ps. 119:91). God himself loves the earth dearly and never takes his hands off it. And because he loves it and it is good, our care of it is also eternal work and a part of our eternal life.

  Dallas Willard

  Hands, Self Love, Environmental

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• Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  Thomas Berry

  Wall, Integrity, Faithful

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• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wise, Appreciation, Selfish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

  Dean Koontz

  Cheating, Lying, Ignorance

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• My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Business, Common

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• ...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Creating, Needs

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.3, WaterBrook

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• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Exercise, Justice, Growth

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• I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

  David Rockefeller

  Mom, Mother, Art

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

  Donald Bren

  Passion, Dedication, Hopeful

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• We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

  George Bernard Shaw

  Environmental, World, Jehovah

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.316, e-artnow

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• My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

  Sally Jewell

  Home, Land, People

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• I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wise, Strong, Believe

  Ronald Reagan, Fred L. Israel, United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) (1987). “Ronald Reagan's Weekly Radio Addresses: The first term”, Scholarly Resources Inc

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• This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  Leader, Sound, Analysis

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• I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.

  Wes Jackson

  Thinking, Garden, Environmental

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• It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

  Caryl Chessman

  Animal, Able, Belief

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• I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

  Christy Mathewson

  Fans, Pitching

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

  Beau Bridges

  Brother, Eye, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Latin, Wings, Roles

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• I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Thinking, Play, Fans

  "Ivanisevic gets ready to bow out", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2004.

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